Other Times: June 3

State inspectors from the Livestock Sanitary board arrived in Chester to kill unmuzzled dogs who were roaming through the city at large, contrary to the quarantine law. They were piloted by Harry Millford, the city’s official dog catcher. The executioners conducted their killings with shotguns instead of revolvers. Millford said they were going to invade the Hayes Street Polish settlement.

75 YEARS AGO — 1939

The baccalaureate service for the graduating class of Prospect Park High School was held at Olivet Presbyterian Church, where pastor Rev. L.K. Richardson spoke on “The Voyage of Life.” Richardson told of seeing a fleet of ships sent around the world by former President Theodore Roosevelt. “I am thinking now of another and more important fleet, a fleet of human lives, and he name of this fleet is “The Class of 1939 of the Prospect Park High School,’ and we can easily imagine Almighty God looking down upon this fleet saying, ‘There go the ships.’”

50 YEARS AGO — 1964

Swarthmore College announced that President Lyndon B. Johnson was slated to deliver the school’s 91st commencement address. The President also was going to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, one of seven honorary degrees to be conferred by the college, which was celebrating its centennial anniversary. College officials said it would mark the first time in 51 years that the President visited the campus while in office. President Woodrow Wilson visited in 1913, planting a scarlet oak tree near the women’s gym. President William Howard Taft made an appearance in 1915, three years after his presidency ended.

25 YEARS AGO — 1989

Seven houses bordering the crumbling Llanerch Quarry in Haverford were evacuated after an inspection found a quarry retaining wall in immediate danger of collapse. Officials notified residents along the 100 block of Joanna Road and the 300 block of Olympic Avenue of the order at 1 p.m., giving them 8 hours to leave. The decision was made after acting Code Enforcement Director Mark Bostwick descended to the bottom of the 300-foot-deep quarry and witnessed three large pieces of rock fall within 15 minutes.

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10 YEARS AGO — 2004

Rutledge Borough Solicitor Richard Tinucci ruled a message nailed to a fence on Waverly Terrace at Swarthmore Avenue was a banner and thus permitted to remain hanging. The banner included the message “One Nation Under God and Don’t You Forget It” alongside an American flag. It was affixed to a solid wooden fence on the side of Jeff Kinney’s house. A borough couple wanted the message removed, saying it was a “sign” and not permitted under the borough’s sign ordinance.